The Married at First Sight couple, or the Carbonara couple as some call them, have evoked strong reactions from viewers.
Some love them while some do not hold back with the criticism about their participation.
Now Ida and Arvid tell us how they handle the harsh words.
Ida Lind and Arvid Stark are one of four couples who have been in Married at First Sight 2023. For the couple it was love at first sight and today, a year after they met, the couple has a newborn daughter, Rakel.
– That it would be like this a year later, we couldn’t dare dream about, says Arvid when he, Ida and Rakel are guests of Nyhetsmorgon.
“People take big words in their mouths”
But the program has not only brought positive things – both Ida and Arvid have had to endure online hate. Among other things, viewers have reacted to a scene from the couple’s weekend; Ida gets drunk, which Arvid notices the next day.
– I have prejudices just like all people, I think and think when I watch TV. So for us it has probably been quite easy to just let the opinions flow from us, says Ida.
However, some things have been harder to hear than others and Ida and Arvid think that you have to think about why you express yourself in certain ways.
– People find it very easy to use big words in their mouths such as alcoholic, psychopath, narcissist and so on. We are just ordinary bachelors who have gone into this and shown ourselves to be vulnerable to each other and to the entire Swedish people in the television box, Ida continues.
Arvid fills in:
– It becomes so clear that the more we choose to show of ourselves, the bigger the target we become for opinions and opinions. But we have received very good support from the production, he says.
“From life to death in a millisecond”
The criticism is not the biggest setback the couple has had this year – they have suffered a great sadness. In the middle of Ida’s pregnancy, they learned that her mother had cancer and a month later the mother was dead.
– It went from life to death in a millisecond, says Ida.
Ida’s mother never had the opportunity to meet Rakel, but she was told that Rakel would come, and Ida and Arvid are grateful for that.
– Carrying life in the belly in the midst of bottomless grief has helped us. Somewhere in Rakel is also mother, so she lives on through us, says Ida.